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120
Citations
297114
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Korea Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Young-Ho Khang is affiliated with Seoul National University in South Korea. Their research contributions primarily focus on fields including Medicine, Social Sciences, and Health Professions. Within these broader fields, their work spans several subfields such as General Health Professions, Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Demography, and Oncology.

Their research addresses key topics related to health, including:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Health and Wellbeing Research
  • Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Young-Ho Khang has coauthored numerous papers with several frequent collaborators, notably:

  • Hee-Yeon Kang (16 publications)
  • Jinwook Bahk (12 publications)
  • Ikhan Kim (10 publications)
  • Yu-Mi Kim (10 publications)
  • Bin Zhou (9 publications)

Their work has been published extensively in various journals, with multiple publications in:

  • Journal of Korean Medical Science (5 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (5 publications)
  • Research Square (4 publications)
  • Epidemiology and Health (3 publications)
  • The Lancet (2 publications)

Among their recent papers are:

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants, 2021, The Lancet
  • Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults, 2024, The Lancet
  • Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol, 2020, Nature
  • Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight, 2021, eLife
  • Global variation in diabetes diagnosis and prevalence based on fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1c, 2023, Nature Medicine

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Theo Vos;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Marie Ng;Tom P Fleming;Margaret W. Robinson;Blake Thomson

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, andyears lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematicanalysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gbd Disease;Injury Incidence;Lorenzo Monasta

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gregory A Roth;Gregory A Roth;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Solomon M Abay

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2016: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study.

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Christina Fitzmaurice;Christina Fitzmaurice;Tomi F. Akinyemiju;Faris Hasan Al Lami;Tahiya Alam

  • Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years.

    Ashkan Afshin;Mohammad Forouzanfar;Marissa Reitsma;Patrick Sur

  • Mild therapeutic hypothermia to improve the neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest

    Michael Holzer;Fritz Sterz;J. M. Darby;S. A. Padosch

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Theo Vos;Christine Allen;Megha Arora;Ryan M Barber

  • Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Boris Bikbov;Caroline A. Purcell;Andrew S. Levey;Mari Smith

  • Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Haidong Wang;Mohsen Naghavi;Christine Allen;Ryan M Barber

  • Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2017

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Degu Abate;Naghmeh Abbasi;Hedayat Abbastabar

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Mohsen Naghavi;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M Abbas

  • National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose and diabetes prevalence since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 370 country-years and 2·7 million participants

    Goodarz Danaei;Mariel M Finucane;Yuan Lu;Gitanjali M Singh

Frequent Co-Authors

Jost B. Jonas
Jost B. Jonas Heidelberg University
Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay University of Washington
Yousef Khader
Yousef Khader Jordan University of Science and Technology
Christopher J L Murray
Christopher J L Murray University of Washington
Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Zulfiqar A Bhutta Aga Khan University
Rakhi Dandona
Rakhi Dandona Public Health Foundation of India
Bach Xuan Tran
Bach Xuan Tran Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Naohiro Yonemoto
Naohiro Yonemoto University of Toyama
Mostafa Qorbani
Mostafa Qorbani Alborz University of Medical Sciences
Sadaf G. Sepanlou
Sadaf G. Sepanlou Tehran University of Medical Sciences

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